Dacian Wars

Dec 23, 2005

Before Trajan returned to Rome in AD 99 to assume his place as ?emperor?, time spent scouting enemy dispositions and investigating the Danube fortifications assuredly inspired him to prepare for an offensive into Dacia. Earlier campaigns against the Dacians as well as against Germanic tribes across the Danube by Domitian had met with some success, but the situation had been largely left unsettled…